"If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire? But it is "Get out of here, damn you, go on to jail, damn you," if it is a working man."
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Mother Jones, Speech in Princeton, WV. (15 August 1920)
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